Dr Dennis Zuev

Research Associate

Affiliations

Career Details

My current research focuses on social processes related to urban mobility in China and specifically on linkages between politics, everyday life and e-mobility practices. I have previously conducted research on mobility practices in Russia, East-European migrants in Portugal, tourism in Antarctica, the use of visual media by Uyghur nationalists. I am also a currently elected Vice-president for Working Group. Visual Sociology (WG 03) in ISA and a member of Campus do Mar network (Portugal).

Education

June 2004. Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in sociology. Altay State University. Major: sociology of culture

August 2000 - August 2003. Postgraduate studies, Krasnoyarsk State University. Major: social structure, social institutions and processes. Title of dissertation: “Political symbols in the mass con­scious­ness of the students' in modern Russia: the results of the empirical research in the city of Krasnoyarsk”.

1997 - 1998, Beijing, Beijing Language and Culture University

September 1995- June 2000. Graduate of the Krasnoyarsk State University, Summa Cum Laude Major: linguistics and intercultural communication (with specialization in Chinese, English and Turkish languages). Title of the final research project: «The linguistic and philosophical definitions of symbol: Symbols in Islam».

January 2010- August 2013, Research grant of Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle-Saale, Germany, Project: “Conditions and Limitations of Lifestyle plurality in Siberia” (PI: Joachim Otto Habeck)

January 2010- March 2011 British Council, RING Grant (together with University of Aberdeen) Project: “Eastern European Migration in Portugal”

December 2009 British Council and DAAD grant for Research Career Workshop

Hosting Marco in Siberia: Tourism and Regimes of Hospitality in an “out of the way” place. In D. Picard and S. Buchberger (eds.) Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms Can tourism make a better world? Transcript Verlag. Bielefeld. (2013)

Reconstructing the content of the political symbols: using the symbolic perspective in the youth research. In “Mixed methods in youth research”. (ed.) H. Helve. Helsinki. Finnish Youth research society. Publications 50. 2005.

The content of the basic political symbols in the mass consciousness of the students: theoretical and methodological issues. In Regional Sociological schools, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Law Academy Press. 2004

Peculiarities of the symbolic world picture formation: production of symbols – reproduction of archetypes. In Art culture: research and teaching methodology, art practices, Krasnoyarsk. Krasnoyarsk State University Press. 2003

Communicative potential of the symbols, the role of symbols in ethnic mobilization. The politics of Ethnic mobilization: democracy or extremism. ISSEY conference proceedings. Aberystwyth. University of Wales, 2002

Peculiarities of the modern global processes: the role of symbols in ethnic mobilization. In Alternatives to globalization: scientific and technological potential of Russia. Moscow: Alternativa. 2002

Symbols as the meaning constructing elements in the mass-culture». In Regional sociological schools at the threshold of the ХХI century. Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk Law Academy Press. 2002

Communicative potential of mythology in the context of the culture in the totalitarian society: the peculiarities of the symbolization process. In “Society. Gender. Culture.” Omsk University Press. 2001

The peculiarities of the symbolization process of the sociocultural reality. In “Regional aspect of the art culture: methodology, teaching methodology, art practices”. Proceedings of the research conference. Krasnoyarsk. Krasnoyarsk State University Press. 2001

The questions of war and peace in Central Asia at the modern stage: the case of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region (XUAR). In “Russian geopolitical space and the problems of the national security”. Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical University Press. 1999

Invited lectures and teaching

September 2012, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, CEVIPOL, Belgium

June 2011, University of Faroe Islands, Torshavn

May 2011, International School of Hotel and Tourist Management, Neuchatel, Switzerland